Streaming platforms love action comedies about secret spies or retired agents, but most are just average at best. Back in Action stands out only for marking Cameron Diaz’s return after nearly a decade, yet it’s another bland Netflix addition. Diaz and Jamie Foxx play CIA operatives, Emily and Matt. During their last mission, the pair […]

Seven years after the first movie hit theaters, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera raises the stakes with a gripping and tension-filled heist sequence, an international scope, compelling performances from its leads, and pulse-pounding action. While it doesn’t quite surpass its predecessor, it still delivers a thrilling experience for fans of the genre. Picking up where […]

Hitting select theaters this past weekend, Donnie Yen directs and stars in the new legal thriller/martial arts action movie The Prosecutor. The film features some fantastic action sequences but sometimes gets bogged down in the legal minutiae of Hong Kong. Yen plays Fok Chi-Ho, a police officer who decides to become a prosecutor for Hong […]

With its R rating, Kraven the Hunter attempts to carve out a niche in Sony’s Marvel Universe, delivering a few solid and cool kills. However, despite these moments, the film ultimately falls flat, lacking the hilariously terrible tone of Madame Web or the bat-shit insanity of the Venom trilogy. The plot of “Kraven the Hunter” […]

It’s been 24 years, but Ridley Scott finally took us back into the Colosseum for Gladiator II. While it lacks compared to its 2000 predecessor, it also shares many of its strengths. Paul Mescal plays the grown Lucius Verus Aurelius, who was forced to flee Rome after the events of Gladiator. Finding a new life […]

Sony’s Marvel Universe continues to flounder as the Venom trilogy comes to a messy and rushed ending in Venom: The Last Dance. Picking up from the end of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (and Eddie/Venom’s cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home), Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Hardy) are fugitives wanted for the murder […]

The recently released Smile 2 does exactly what a good sequel should: it takes what worked in the first movie and ramps it up to new levels. Naomi Scott takes over the lead role as Skye Riley,  a troubled pop superstar on the verge of starting a big comeback tour.  While trying to get some […]

2019’s Joker was an interesting spin on a classic comic character and a stylish throwback to 70s Scorsese griminess that found its way to an Oscar win for Joaquin Phoenix and over 1 billion dollars at the box office.  Joker: Folie à Deux is one of the most baffling sequels in recent memory. It feels […]

Dave Bautista battles a rogue’s gallery of colorful assassins in the over-the-top new action movie The Killer’s Game, which came out last weekend in theaters. Bautista plays Joe Flood, one of the, if not the, greatest assassin in the world.  Falling for a dancer, Maizie (Sofia Boutella), Joe wants out of the “killer’s game,” but […]

Taking a cue from recent movies like M3GAN and 90s domestic thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Megan Fox is a robotic housekeeper who goes out of control in Subservience. Michele Morrone stars as Nick, whose wife Maggie (Madeline Zima) has been hospitalized waiting for a heart transplant. Overwhelmed with the stress of […]

Over 35 years since the original movie, Michael Keaton finally returns as the Ghost with the Most in the long-anticipated sequel to Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Taking place in the present day, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) is now a reality TV host with a teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), and a boyfriend/manager, Rory (Justin Theroux).  When Lydia’s […]